Ned Vizzini Quotes
I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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No two wars are identical.
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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.
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When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.
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It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.
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Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed.
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People tend to think that I know less about what I'm talking about than I actually do - usually people who think that all aristocrats are stupid.
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I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.